The Frontier
Pnbllihad by D. H. CRON IN.
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WHY NOT PROSECUTE?
From the statements made by T. C.
Cannon, the accountant who checked
up the accounts of former Township
Treasurer Pat Hanley, It is evident a
crime has been committed.
It is the doty of the county attorney
to take steps to apprehend the culprit
when it is known or suspected that a
crime has been committed. It was
the duty of County Attorney Mullen
to issue the papers that the sheriff
might be sent after Pat Hanley im
mediately when It became known that
his accounts with the township were
not straight. He violates his oath of
office when he neglects a plain duty.
Here we have the spectacle of a pop
ulist township officer defaulting nearly
•5,500 and a populist oouhty attorney
who says by his actions that lie will
5 hot prosecute him.
Is it surmising too much to say if a
republican official had a shortage of
•6,500 hanging over him in this county
he would be languishing behind the
bars within twenty-four hours after
the fact became known?
If County Attorney Mullen doesn’t
know that a crime has been cora
mited it Is his duty as an officer to
ascertain the facts from the report of
the acoountant now in the hands of
the committee. la the interest of
justice; lb is the duty of the committee
‘fcb inform the county attorney.
When some vagabond steals an
urfciole worth a few paltry cents
iroimd 'town a great hue and cry Is
jkised, but when one of the band of
Organized grafters is caught redhand
ed there is nobody to raise a hand in
behalf of justice.
’ Here are two young men serving
Sentences in the penitentiary for
breaking open a store and carrying
away a few dollar’s worth of knives
which they restored to the owner
when caught. Here is another who
got,away with ever #5,000 of the ta*
payers’ .money by forgery and fraud
•fcnd there is no one to raise a finger
that justice may be done.
Hanley was given every opportunity
tP make good hjs escape. He has fled
from .Spencer and a record there is
oomrtng bo light. Nobody now .knows
Where he la If County Attorney
Sullen refuses to perform his sworn
duty it .is up to the county hoard to
vacate the office and appoint some
one who will.
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A MAU.NANIMOU8 CLAIM.
' Independent: At the township
meeting Mr. Samuel B. Howard, a
, V , weU recognized populist leader, made
a motion that a committee be ap
pointed to employ an expert to check
.. . i,, up. Hanley’s books. This was the
right spirit.: No political party can
be absolutely sure of every man it
< nominates,((-and whether Hanley was
short or not it , was determined that
the books must be examined and the
truth fouhd Out. Accordingly, a com
mittee made up exclusively of pop
ulists was appointed to employ an
Wert.
■Isn’t that rich! Our contemporary
«a® make the most cheerful Baron
record look like a ten cent piece. In
the face of the Independent’s re
, peated attacks on The Frontier for
demanding an accounting of Pat
Hanley, in the face of the minutes of
1 't*1® township meeting held in April
and the words of protest from one of
the members of the “populist com
mittee" against a checking up, in the
face of Jim Donahoe’s “investigation”
and the Independent editor’s own
word that ha had looked up The
Frontier’s charges against Hanley
and found nothing wrong, that paper
now oomes out and claims the credit
for the checking up is due the pop
ulist party.
—The township meeting was not a
political meeting, but a business
meeting. The -burdened, patient tax
payers came together to And out 11
they could what they were getting
from year to year for their money.
It was a business proposition to them
to ascertain where their money was
going. There was no thought of this
or that political party gaining vot^s
thereby. But the Independent, true
to its partisan instincts, has tried to
inject politics from the beginning.
When The Frontier started the agita
tion it accused us of being animated
by political motives. Now that a
putrlfying messof corruption has been
uncovered that paper says the populist
party is entitled to the credit for
bringing about the investigation.
Here is consistency!
The Frontier claims no credit for
the republican party. We felt it our
duty, on the strength of some develp
ments last January, to demand an ac
counting of the township officers.
The voters and tax payers did the rest
at the annual township meeting.
But Inasmuch as the Independent
has made the claim it has, let us see
what took, place at that meeting.
The resolution naming the committee
and authorizing the checking up was
verbally formulated in open meeting
by S. J. Weekes, a republican. It
was put before the house in the shape
of a motion by George Gaughenbaugh
—another republican—and seconded
by Sam Howard. The committee
named in the resolution was Coffey,
Hughes and Hershiser, all populists.
Mr. Hughes expressed his disapproval
of an Investigation on the grounds
that those whose books were to be
checked up were boys that had grown
up in our midst and he could not
believe that they had done anything
wrong. This is exactly what took
place at the township meeting and if
there is any politics in it credit is due
republicans and not populists.
St. Petersburg is again “shrouded in
giobm.” The long expected naval
battle, resulting in humillattqg and
overwhelming defeat of the Russians
and the practical annihilation of the
magniilclent Baltic fleet, is a blow
that she can not well recover from in
time to save herself in the present
struggle. The Japs have showh> that
they are masters on the seas as well as
on the land and it would certainly be
the part Of wisdom for the czar’s
government to acknowledge defeat
and withdraw her remaining shatter
ed forces within her own property ter
ritory and negotiate for peace.
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It looks a little doubious for Den
nison over at Red Oak, Iowa. Shsr
cliffe, the star witness for the state,
tells a story in a way that is calculated
tooarry conviction and it will not be
surprising if the jury makes up a
verdict of guilty.
Oounty Attorney Mullen is in about
as much of a hurry to ascertain if a
crime has been committed in forging
and altering Grattan township war
rants as he was in Issuing search war
rants after the Elkhorn Valley bank
closed.
Judge Kinkaid is mentioned as a
possible successor of Senator Millard,
and by the way, there are few men in
Nebraska who could do as well by us
In the senate. He is on the right
side of tlie corporation question, too.
Boyd oounty used its little hatchet
on the Niobrara bridge proposition.
A question of location maybe has
saved the tax payers some money in
| the long run.
What’s to be gained by turning out
one set of pass grabbers and putting
in another set of pass grabbers?
There doesn’t seem to be enough
left of the Baltic fleet to take the
Russians home.
Grass and small grain are about as
good as the worst kicker could ask for.
’Rah for Togo!
Time to Arouse
Atkinson Graphic: The report of
the expert, hired by the Grattan town
board to investigate the books of the
former treasurer, Pat Hanley, dis
closes a bad state of affairs and is a
vindication of The Frontier who has
been urging the citizens of O’Neill to
wake up and find out where they were
at. The county at large has been
aware for some time that the gang at
O’Neill has been hitting a high paoe
and are not surprised only In the small
amount of the steal, $5,500, but that
office was only one of their resources.
There are other public cribs yet to
hear from. The bank lootings and the
present disclosure amount to about
$60,000. It is a well known fact that
this is only a small part of the boodle
that has been used by the self styled,
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God like, reformers to retain their
lustful hold on Holt county. The
doubly burdened taxpayers of Grattan
township and in fact the whole
county should arouse and demand an
accounting of tills organized band of
leeches who are sucking life blood in
order to retain their lawless su
premacy. _
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Can anything be worse than to feel
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Such was th3 experience of Mrs. S. H.
Newson, Decatur, Ala. "For three
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Butte Gazette: A vote was taken
by the county supervisors yesterday
on a motion, made by Coffee of Spen
cer, to build, in conjuction with Holt
county, a bridge across the Niobrara
at the mouth of Turkey Creek. The
supervisors are to be congratulated on
their good judgment in the matter, for
with all the crowd of “bridge-hungry’?
present, and the argument of "liberal
contribution” the vote stood, 2 for to
5 against the aforesaid motion. This
vote was due to an investigation made
recently by the supervisors, in which
they found the crossing at Turkey
Creek a very impractical one for a
bridge. It was found that the "high
and dry island” could only be crossed
by using waders; that there was a
shifting channel, which, the exper
ience with the Badger bridge lias
demonstrated, means that the build
ing of the bridge would be but the
smallest item compared with the con
stant repair work that would be requir
ed; and that there would be but one
way of building a bridge and that
clear across the aforesaid island,
which would make it four times as
long as one built at Dodge’s Ferry,
the only practical place and the loca
tion desired by the most people, both
in Boyd and Holt.
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